Thursday, August 28, 2014

Wilhelm Reich, Sex-Pol. Essays, 1929-1934

This volume contains the first complete
translations of Wilhelm Reich’s writings from his Marxist period. Reich,
who died in 1957, had a career with a single goal: to find ways of
relieving human suffering. And the same curiosity and courage that led
him from medical school to join the early pioneers of Freudian
psychoanalysis, and then to some of the most controversial work of this
century—his development of the theory of the orgone—led him also, at one
period of his life, to become a radical socialist.
The renewed
interest in Reich’s Marxist writings, and particularly in his notions
about sexual and political liberation, follows the radical critiques of
Herbert Marcuse, Frantz Fanon and Paul Goodman, the political protest
movements toward personal liberation in the present decade.